Ricardo Pinto

Drexel Gallery presents Meridianos, an exhibition of Ricardo Pinto's recent artwork.

Talud.

From the French talus.

The inclination of the face of a wall or terrain.

In my work, the landscape has been a constant that I approach in different ways. In this recent series, I approach the remoteness of the mountain from its most elemental and transcendental form: a cumulus that yields under its own weight.

The Talud series is an exploration of the tension between the graphic and the pictorial. I am interested in generating layers of pictorial values ​​generated through a matrix that offers multiple graphic possibilities, in conjunction with metallic backgrounds that generate a dimension of time to the two-dimensional surface.

Whether graphic or pictorial, the color clusters begin to describe an alternate "space," determined by the tension and superposition of planes, referring us to an abstract representation of a territory. From that moment on, the possibilities of new limits and broken borders and reinterpreted meridians come into play.

— Ricardo Pinto